Question about Gambling websites with Curaçao license using incorrect Merchant Category code (page 22)

Hi Owen, it's good to read this as I'm trying to discuss with my bank at the moment and they just don't seem to understand the issue. I have a gambling block activated and by these merchants using incorrect codes the payments have bypassed the block, had correct codes been used the transactions would have been blocked. Do you have any advice for me corresponding with the bank about this and are chargebacks possible for this issue? Obtaining authorisation via incorrect data? All the merchants ok my statements operate what appear to be fake shops, selling things that I haven't ordered or received, fake items like software services, ect. Any advice welcome. Thanks

If you report the transactions as unauthorized they will do an investigation and call the companies on your statement. Since they are breaking the rules of visa and international gaming laws, they will not answer your bank or be able to prove that you purchased anything from them and you will win your claim.

Great news. Have you received your refund now? How long did it take them to review and agree to refund? They have emailed me to say my documents are with the "relevant department" to investigate. How far back were your transactions?

Yes all received within 2 days of first contacting them it arrived this morning! Apprx 1300 worth.

Now waiting on Elogra.

Anyone else had any luck with the others? Don't think taslink will follow up

That's amazing, I emailed 4 days ago and apparently my documents are with a department for review, my transactions are almost a year old and total 5 figures so will see, how old were yours?

I have had a refund from canapay and that's it so far.

Only a couple of months old, so a bit different I guess. Good luck!

I sent my first email to them 12th of april and sent them like 5 email since then and still no refund or answer

How did it go with Frenno and visiola?

Do you have microc on your bankstatement with frenno?

How did kycoin go?

Did you get a refund from visiola?

Lottie is blowing smoke. I got no answer from them at all. It’s a .org. The company that shows on my credit card is Visiola Ltd based out of UK as far as I can tell.

Hi yes please what email address did you use? How long did the refund take? Thanks

Does anyone know the email address for Nikotpf Webops ltd?

Hello everyone

Has anyone had successful chargebacks from Bank?

I tried, but my bank (or credit card issuer to be more precise) said the transactions happened too long ago for them to take any action on my behalf, which was understandable to be honest…

General question - has anyone managed to get any refunds in cases were the merchant seems to have links to Estonia , Ukraine or random African countries? Don’t think I’ve ever gotten any response in those cases. Guess the jurisdictions regarding these practices are non-existant in those countries.

Tnrsscript

Ad wadata

Legal Services attorn

i have all these three. No Idea what Tnrsscript or Legal Sevices attorn refers to. Asked my bank all they could see is that Tnrsscript is based in London

ad wadata simply doesn’t reply. none of the african ones reply

I’m starting to believe that Mastercard / Visa simply are letting the miscoding practices kind of slip through. I mean the gambling industry is huge and I guess they earn some money on each transaction?

They just blame the merchants/acquirers/banks and they blame eachother. I’m sure they could prevent this is they really wanted.

Reading this thread, you see the same merchants / payment providers over and over again, which must mean that nothing is done to penalize or shut them down.

Totally agree